Exploring the Fish Market in Jimbaran, Bali

Our little family of five spent three weeks exploring the beautiful Island of the Gods aka Bali earlier this year. We began our family vacat...

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Anne's shrimp and mango salad

We had some friends over today and I needed something bright and yummy (and without gluten) to be served on this sunny day. I was browsing m...

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Cullen Skink, a Scottish smoked haddock and potato soup (gluten-free)

Few days ago the Scots - and friends of Scotland - celebrated yet another anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, hosting or attending a B...

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Layered Vegetable Salad with Smoked Salmon

(From the Nami-Nami recipe archives .) " Kasukas " - "fur coat" - is a name for a layered vegetable salad that is very p...

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Gravlax with sea-buckthorn berries

Sea-buckthorn is a popular autumn berry here in Estonia. I'm afraid it's not so widely known in the US where most of my blog readers...

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Simple, yet decadent fish supper: pan-fried vendace

This was originally posted in August 2012. I reposted this in late June, when the catching season for Lake Peipus vendace began and fresh an...

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Estonian delicacies: spiced sprat sandwiches

The Baltic sprat   ( Sprattus sprattus balticus ) is a subspecies of the European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ), also known  as brisling or sk...

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Smoked salmon and spinach quiche

Some seven years ago, when my dear K. and I met for a long weekend date in Paris. One morning we had a late breakfast at  Bread & Roses ...

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A great starter recipe: Shrimp and cucumber salad with mint vinaigrette

Photo by  Juta K�barsepp  for the May 2013 issue of  Kodu ja Aed  ("Home and Garden", an Estonian monthly) Back in early April, wh...

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It's Pasta Time: Tagliatelle with creamy spinach and pan-fried salmon

One of my favourite pasta dishes recently is this clean-looking pasta (usually tagliatelle, but I've also used linguine) with seared sal...

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Grilled mackerel with potato and chorizo hash

Doesn't this look like something wonderfully light and spring-like? We've had couple of beautifully sunny days here in Estonia recen...

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